Australia Leading the Way On The Road To The Last Days?
Perhaps it might be a bit extreme to think that Australia’s government is quite as bad as all that but then again, I can’t begin to say how many stories I’ve seen over the last couple of years that show a definite trend in that direction. Privacy and freedom of speech is taking hit after hit there (yah, I know, the US isn’t exactly stellar in that regard anymore is it? Thanks mr Bush.).
They’ve taken a lot of steps to make it easier for police and intel people to snoop on just about anybody for any or even no reason. Freedom of speech is fast becoming a thing of the past and I have no doubt that there’s some government operated “extended stay hotels” that are little more than secret prisons where the incarcerated have little, if any, rights and now there’s a story on an Australian news site with the screaming tittle “Humans ‘will be implanted with microchips'”.
In which there’s a whole lot of talk that’s trying to justify and predict that microchip implants will be required someday. I have no doubt that’s true. I also have no intention of ever complying with such a requirement.
Then again, we in the US have the homeland security act, the patriot act, gitmo, warrantless wiretapping, domestic spying, free speech zones, and no doubt a whole lot more on the way.
So I don’t suppose I can actually say for 100% certain if Australia is leading the way or not. It could well be a three way tie between Britain, Australia and the US.
On a related note (well, sorta): during the recent power failure I was listening to Paul Harvey on the car radio and he popped up with a quote that I just have to share. I don’t know who it’s attributed to and right now I’m too lazy to look it up but here it is:
If all of the lawyers in the world were laid end to end around the equator
We’d all be better off.
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Yeah, could be it start from Australia although I was also thinking that America will be the one who lead to the last days too…No one knows the time and how that will start.
Unless of course Britain and the UK have already gotten a head start on it